Dan Goodman wrote:
> David DeLaney wrote:
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>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:53:25 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>> > On 3/3/08 David DeLaney wrote:
>> >> > Traditional elves were very fa****on conscious. They copied the
>> >> fa****ons
>> >> > > of the rich humans of their time.
>> >>
>> >> Er ... which tradition, exactly? There's several. (Some of which
>> >> existed before
>> >> there were humans at all.)
>> >
>> > Which traditions existed before there were humans at all?
>>
>> In the mythology of the tradition, not in The Real World - sorry if I
>> wrote that confusingly. The most widely-known one would be Tolkien's,
>> but there are others out there, such as Moorcock's and the standard
>> D&D background (which is cribbed from a whole slew of fantasy).
>> 'Elder races' are not uncommon - though few take it as far, or have
>> as many still wandering around, as Erikson does. Aren't Brust's
>> Dragaera supposed to predate the arrival of "Easterners" (who to us
>> would be the humans, though the Dragaerans call themselves human) as
>> well?
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> As I understand it, they were developed from human stock.
Not beef, ****k or chicken stock? Vegetable stock? They serve man?
(Sorry,
couldn't resist ;)
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